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The Photography of Mike Watt, iconic punk bassist
Tuesday May 18, 2010 |
 “I started taking digital shots when Columbia records gave me a Primitive Mavecia (used floppy discs!) in 1997,” seminal post-punk bass player Mike Watt explains of his fine photography. “I really didn't get into it though with tthe bike riding in the early morning (I started pedaling in 1996 after like 22 years of not riding a bicycle ‘cause I got a car at sixteen) 'till around 2002.” “I was in love with early morning but never thought of taking pictures. You know, Pedro faces East - much different than the other So Cal water towns and that's what we got: sunrises and not really sunsets.
“I started paddling maybe seven years ago. I love my kayak and it's above-the-waist action, so it gives my knees a break (I paddle Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) - I had surgeries on them in my early twenties (I'm fifty-two now) ‘cause I was born with them bad (gift from my pop's Danish ma) and fuck, my pop was a sailor - an engine room cat (chief, machinist mate) so why not be my own engine room? So I'm a paddler besides a peddler. I have a waterproof camera for when I'm in the 'yak and then one for pedaling I carry in kind of a purse the goes over my shoulder crosswise.”
Via boingboing
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